Tag: Greta Thunberg
10 good things about 2019
Remembering some of the gains in the difficult year of 2019 can help inspire us for the critical struggles ahead.
Greta Thunberg offers advice to young people, dismisses climate-denying politicians in...
“Be an active democratic citizen...because democracy is not only on election day, it's happening all the time.”
Greta Thunberg slams COP25, says response to climate crisis is ‘clever...
“I still believe that the biggest danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when in fact almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR."
Cross-generational power to change
What can what little girl do? She can lead the rest of us to victory.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines Nordic environmental prize saying “the climate...
“I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize.”
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta...
Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address the climate crisis.
A rising youth movement picks up where governments have failed
The youth movement is diverse and contains many political currents, but above all it is an expression of positive action, hope for the future, and readiness for far-reaching change.
With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint...
Yesterday, climate activist Greta Thunberg joined 15 other children from around the world to submit a complaint – or “communication” – to...
“People are suffering. People are dying”: Greta Thunberg opens up the...
"How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you are doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight."
To critics who say climate action is ‘too expensive,’ Greta Thunberg...
During an event in New York City Monday night with author and environmentalist Naomi Klein, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had a simple message...
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Biden signs executive order to protect 30 percent of country’s lands and ocean waters...
The 30x30 goal is said to be part of Biden's larger plan to preserve wildlife and combat global warming.
Freedom of thought and the death of ideologies
Unity is the key element in any such shift — the required guiding principle underlying the development of existing systems and modes of living.
Essential work and the struggle for $15
“Why don’t we stop treating it as entirely normal that the more obviously one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
‘Shameful’: Millionaire senators vote against popular minimum wage raise that would lift millions out...
"It is baffling that any member of the U.S. Senate could look at the crisis this country is enduring and decide that tens of millions of low-income workers should not get a raise."
Former State Dept aide arrested for participating in Capitol riots
Federico Klein was arrested on charges that include unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, obstructing Congress and law enforcement, and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon.